State biologists captured a mother bear defending her three cubs in a Longwood neighborhood early this morning and relocated the bears to the Ocala National Forest, according to officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Residents along Briar Cliff Drive, a subdivision just north of State Road 434 near Longwood, called FWC on Tuesday to say that the bear was sitting at the base of a tree while her three cubs were climbing the branches of the tree.

The sow appeared to have lunged at a resident who walked too close to the tree.

"It appears it was a mother being defensive," said Susan Carroll-Douglas, an FWC biologist. "She was trying to protect her cubs."

Biologists then set a cage trap and filled it with sweet pastries to lure the bears, Carroll-Douglas said.

After capturing the bears, biologists took hair samples and a tooth from the bears to determine their ages and other data. They then drove the bears to the Ocala National Forest and released them at about 3 a.m. today.

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